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PUBLIC L A ^ 7 7 4 - J U L Y 24, 1956

Public Law 774 July 24, 1956 [H. R. 8290]

U. S. M a f i n e Band. 34 USC 701. Director and a s sistant directors.

Grade.

Promotion.

Restriction.

Retirement.

R e v o c a t i o n of designation.

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AN ACT To provide for the appointment and promotion of the director and assistant directors of the band of the United States Marine Corps, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection 517 (a) of the Act of October 12, 1949 (63 Stat. 833) is amended to read as follows: "(a) The band of the United States Marine Corps shall consist of one director, two assistant directors, and such other personnel in such numbers and distributed in such grades and ranks as the Secretary of the Navy may determine necessary and appropriate. Hereafter during concert tours approved by the President, personnel of the Marine Band shall suffer no loss of allowances." SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Navy shall designate the director and assistant directors of the Marine Band from among qualified personnel of the United States Marine Corps or the United States Marine Corps Reserve. Persons so designated may, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy, be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to commissioned grades in the Regular Marine Corps as authorized by this Act. (b) The initial appointment to a commissioned grade of any person designated as director shall be in the grade of captain except that any such person who, at the time of such designation, holds an appointment in a higher grade may be appointed in such higher grade, but not in a higher grade than that of lieutenant colonel. The initial appointment to a commissioned grade of any person designated as an assistant director shall be in a grade below that of captain. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe regulations for the promotion of persons designated as director or assistant director of the Marine Band and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may from time to time appoint them to higher grades, but the grade of the director shall not be higher than lieutenant colonel, and the grades of assistant directors shall not be higher than captain. SEC. 4. No person who accepts a commission under this Act shall, while serving thereunder, be entitled to any pay and allowances from the United States except as provided by law for the grade in which serving, but no such person shall suffer any reduction in pay and allowances to which he was entitled at the time of such appointment. SEC. 5. Directors and assistant directors of the Marine Band and former directors and assistant directors who have held appointments under this Act, when retired shall be retired in and with retired pay based upon the highest grade held pursuant to this Act in which the Secretary of the Navy determines that they have served satisfactorily, unless entitled to higher grade or retired pay under other provisions of law. SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, may revoke a designation as director or assistant director made pursuant to this Act. Upon such revocation, appointment to commissioned grade under the provisions of this Act shall terminate, and the individual concerned shall be discharged from the service or shall have the option of reversion to the grade and status held at the time of his designation as director or assistant director.

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